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The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness…
The true and only way of concord of all the Christian churches the desirableness of it, and the detection of false dividing terms / opened by Richard Baxter.
London: printed for John Hancock, 1680
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. That God is as much the Cause of all sin, as he is of darkness and such other privations: and that he made Adam sin; or that he irresistibly predetermineth every ones will to every forbidden act which it doth.
2. That the Devil irresistibly necessitated Adam to sin, and so some superior cause did the Devils.
3. That sin is not only the occasion of much good, but a proper cause, and as such is decreed, willed and caused by God.
4. That God made a Covenant with Adam, that if he sinned, all that came of him should be reputed sinners, farther than they were really seminally in him, and by natural in-being and derivation were partakers of his guilt, and corruptions; and so that God made them sinners by his arbitrary imputation, when naturally they were not so.